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Posted: 4/25/2016 12:49:10 PM EDT
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Just wanted to see if there is interest in me taking the time to take pics of a minor project. This is our first year of incubating eggs (always bought day old chicks or let the hens do their thing), and I am already sick of turning eggs by hand, and not always around when they need turned. Also don't want to shell out $60+ for a turner. Found an egg turner motor (1/240RPM 110 volt motor) for $20 shipped on fleabay. Have a 3D printer and other supplies around, going to make my own turner. If anybody wants me to take pics of it and make a little write-up, I will. ETA: Meh, I'll take pics and such 
Do it! Do it! Doooooooo iiiiiiiiiiiittttt!!!
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Posted: 5/2/2016 9:26:47 PM EDT
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Entire top of run is covered now, though there are still some spots that need to be finished. (Small gaps where sheet metal meets welded wire).
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Posted: 5/3/2016 1:33:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Do it! Do it! Doooooooo iiiiiiiiiiiittttt!!! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Just wanted to see if there is interest in me taking the time to take pics of a minor project. This is our first year of incubating eggs (always bought day old chicks or let the hens do their thing), and I am already sick of turning eggs by hand, and not always around when they need turned. Also don't want to shell out $60+ for a turner. Found an egg turner motor (1/240RPM 110 volt motor) for $20 shipped on fleabay. Have a 3D printer and other supplies around, going to make my own turner. If anybody wants me to take pics of it and make a little write-up, I will. ETA: Meh, I'll take pics and such Do it! Do it! Doooooooo iiiiiiiiiiiittttt!!!  ETA: This piece is done and cooling. Should take 4 to make the entire tray.  |
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Posted: 5/5/2016 1:11:22 PM EDT
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You can fabricate anything, can't you?
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Posted: 5/5/2016 1:49:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You can fabricate anything, can't you? |
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Posted: 5/8/2016 10:39:58 PM EDT
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I bought a leash and harness; here's my daughter walking one of the goats.
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Posted: 5/9/2016 2:38:46 PM EDT
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Pic of the motor bracket being made. Again, fuzzy from the 3D printer moving fast. This will clip on the side of the incubator and hold the motor itself.
Say, should I put my little write-up of the build here when I am done in a post, or should it be in a new topic to not derail this tread? Pic:  |
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Posted: 5/9/2016 7:20:27 PM EDT
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I bought a leash and harness; here's my daughter walking one of the goats. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v374/qwertyup/Goats%202016/2016-5-820Alysia.jpg Wow. Pretty girl! 
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Posted: 5/9/2016 7:24:04 PM EDT
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I don't have an opinion, but it sounds like anybody with an incubator might gain from the knowledge, which would make it fit here.
You could IM the OP and see what he thinks.
That said, we take side trips to cute goats (which after all DO fit perfectly with chickens  ) so I can't imagine that your information wouldn't be welcome.
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Posted: 5/10/2016 11:26:36 AM EDT
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Lost a silky to a hawk the other day... Poor girl... Broke its neck but #1 couldn't fly away with it or #2 the rooster was at it before it could start shredding it.
Girls are on lock down for the next couple weeks till we figure out a solution. Hawks are hard to get a jump on, I have almost been successful of "scarring" it away twice but as soon as a door gets opened it takes off. I need to get eyes on its location prior to stepping out and trying to "scare" it. Shotgun is now prepositioned so I can get a quick warning shot off at it... I want to scare the feathers off of it so it doesn't every come back. 
If nothing changes by tomorrow I am going to start hanging CD (disks) in the trees and on the corner of my shed. Maybe put 10 or so around... Ether way they are locked up for 2 weeks minimum. Plus it will give me a chance to get some grass growing in my front yard where they dug it all up... 
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Posted: 5/10/2016 6:03:05 PM EDT
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Lost a silky to a hawk the other day... Poor girl... Broke its neck but #1 couldn't fly away with it or #2 the rooster was at it before it could start shredding it. Girls are on lock down for the next couple weeks till we figure out a solution. Hawks are hard to get a jump on, I have almost been successful of "scarring" it away twice but as soon as a door gets opened it takes off. I need to get eyes on its location prior to stepping out and trying to "scare" it. Shotgun is now prepositioned so I can get a quick warning shot off at it... I want to scare the feathers off of it so it doesn't every come back.
If nothing changes by tomorrow I am going to start hanging CD (disks) in the trees and on the corner of my shed. Maybe put 10 or so around... Ether way they are locked up for 2 weeks minimum. Plus it will give me a chance to get some grass growing in my front yard where they dug it all up...
Maybe the hawk will move on when the chickens are put up for a while. We don't free range for this reason and about a hundred others. I like my garden and my flowers and my landscaping. |
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Posted: 5/10/2016 6:03:48 PM EDT
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Mrs was candling our eggs in the incubator today, we have movement on at least 6 eggs, probably 8, which is half of what is in there (most of the other half I am sure weren't fertilized).
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Posted: 5/10/2016 6:05:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lost a silky to a hawk the other day... Poor girl... Broke its neck but #1 couldn't fly away with it or #2 the rooster was at it before it could start shredding it. Girls are on lock down for the next couple weeks till we figure out a solution. Hawks are hard to get a jump on, I have almost been successful of "scarring" it away twice but as soon as a door gets opened it takes off. I need to get eyes on its location prior to stepping out and trying to "scare" it. Shotgun is now prepositioned so I can get a quick warning shot off at it... I want to scare the feathers off of it so it doesn't every come back. If nothing changes by tomorrow I am going to start hanging CD (disks) in the trees and on the corner of my shed. Maybe put 10 or so around... Ether way they are locked up for 2 weeks minimum. Plus it will give me a chance to get some grass growing in my front yard where they dug it all up... We have so many hawks and eagles around (we loose cats to the eagles every now and again) that we keep them in a run with a net over the top. Wish I could let them free range, but we would loose a great many birds every year if we did. |
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Posted: 5/10/2016 6:14:36 PM EDT
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That is never good. We have so many hawks and eagles around (we loose cats to the eagles every now and again) that we keep them in a run with a net over the top. Wish I could let them free range, but we would loose a great many birds every year if we did. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Lost a silky to a hawk the other day... Poor girl... Broke its neck but #1 couldn't fly away with it or #2 the rooster was at it before it could start shredding it. Girls are on lock down for the next couple weeks till we figure out a solution. Hawks are hard to get a jump on, I have almost been successful of "scarring" it away twice but as soon as a door gets opened it takes off. I need to get eyes on its location prior to stepping out and trying to "scare" it. Shotgun is now prepositioned so I can get a quick warning shot off at it... I want to scare the feathers off of it so it doesn't every come back.
If nothing changes by tomorrow I am going to start hanging CD (disks) in the trees and on the corner of my shed. Maybe put 10 or so around... Ether way they are locked up for 2 weeks minimum. Plus it will give me a chance to get some grass growing in my front yard where they dug it all up...
We have so many hawks and eagles around (we loose cats to the eagles every now and again) that we keep them in a run with a net over the top. Wish I could let them free range, but we would loose a great many birds every year if we did. I'm going to build my run this week. After hearing stories like this, I am going to fence in the top as well. 
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Posted: 5/10/2016 7:13:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lost a silky to a hawk the other day... Poor girl... <snip> I've heard of people putting crow decoys on the ground/in the trees, to scare hawks away. (Crows love to attack hawks). |
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Posted: 5/10/2016 7:13:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wow. Pretty girl! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I bought a leash and harness; here's my daughter walking one of the goats. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v374/qwertyup/Goats%202016/2016-5-820Alysia.jpg Thank you. |
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Posted: 5/10/2016 10:25:15 PM EDT
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I'm going to build my run this week. After hearing stories like this, I am going to fence in the top as well.
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Lost a silky to a hawk the other day... Poor girl... Broke its neck but #1 couldn't fly away with it or #2 the rooster was at it before it could start shredding it. Girls are on lock down for the next couple weeks till we figure out a solution. Hawks are hard to get a jump on, I have almost been successful of "scarring" it away twice but as soon as a door gets opened it takes off. I need to get eyes on its location prior to stepping out and trying to "scare" it. Shotgun is now prepositioned so I can get a quick warning shot off at it... I want to scare the feathers off of it so it doesn't every come back.
If nothing changes by tomorrow I am going to start hanging CD (disks) in the trees and on the corner of my shed. Maybe put 10 or so around... Ether way they are locked up for 2 weeks minimum. Plus it will give me a chance to get some grass growing in my front yard where they dug it all up...
We have so many hawks and eagles around (we loose cats to the eagles every now and again) that we keep them in a run with a net over the top. Wish I could let them free range, but we would loose a great many birds every year if we did. I'm going to build my run this week. After hearing stories like this, I am going to fence in the top as well.
I set 10 or 12' 4 X 4s (as I'm thinking about it, I'm editing because I can't remember how long they were. I think they were shorter than I initially thought but I've got 7- 8' above ground. I would not have buried 4' of post, so they were probably 10s.) Anyway, I set them in concrete, then put telephone pole-style cross bars at the top. Draped the fencing over that. I used chicken wire that I wove together into one big sheet (time consuming, but you only have to do it once) and that catches far fewer songbirds than netting. It doesn't have to be completely perfect, I've found, to deter raptors. They see the "top" on the tent and apparently think "danger". They've never gone looking for the inevitable openings that are sometimes there. ETA: I used those tall ones so I had at least 6' of height, even almost out to the edges of the 5' fence. So it's above my head at all times. That way I don't have to stoop when I go in the run. (I'm just over five feet tall ) |
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Posted: 5/10/2016 11:01:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Mrs was candling our eggs in the incubator today, we have movement on at least 6 eggs, probably 8, which is half of what is in there (most of the other half I am sure weren't fertilized). |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 4:41:04 PM EDT
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I just checked them again wuth an egg candling adapterbi printed today, and we have good movement on 10 eggs, and 1 more is only a few days out! 3 were just yolks, no evidence they were even fertilized. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Mrs was candling our eggs in the incubator today, we have movement on at least 6 eggs, probably 8, which is half of what is in there (most of the other half I am sure weren't fertilized).
Woot! New babies inbound!
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Posted: 5/11/2016 4:44:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Woot! New babies inbound! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Mrs was candling our eggs in the incubator today, we have movement on at least 6 eggs, probably 8, which is half of what is in there (most of the other half I am sure weren't fertilized). Woot! New babies inbound!  |
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Posted: 5/11/2016 6:31:13 PM EDT
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Don't celebrate too hard, they are destined for the table
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Mrs was candling our eggs in the incubator today, we have movement on at least 6 eggs, probably 8, which is half of what is in there (most of the other half I am sure weren't fertilized).
Woot! New babies inbound!
Awww....well, they'll still be cute when they're babies.
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Posted: 5/12/2016 5:13:07 PM EDT
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Approximately when can I put my chicks out in the coop?
They are only three weeks old and are outgrowing the large dog crate brooder that we have set-up. I was thinking maybe next week, I could leave them in the coop and close off the run so they can't go outside unless I or my wife is out with them. What's the consensus with daytime temps being in the mid to upper 60's and night time temps in the mid to upper 40's? |
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Posted: 5/12/2016 6:33:08 PM EDT
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Fully feathered is the main thing that determines when you can put them outside.
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Posted: 5/12/2016 6:40:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Approximately when can I put my chicks out in the coop? They are only three weeks old and are outgrowing the large dog crate brooder that we have set-up. I was thinking maybe next week, I could leave them in the coop and close off the run so they can't go outside unless I or my wife is out with them. What's the consensus with daytime temps being in the mid to upper 60's and night time temps in the mid to upper 40's? I keep them in the coop for a couple weeks, don't let them out into the run. Makes them accept the coop as home. |
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Posted: 5/12/2016 6:50:50 PM EDT
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What I have always done is absolutely wait until they have feathered out. I am assuming you have at least 4-5, don't have time to look. With temps dipping down into the 40's, they will be in trouble unless they are fully feathered and there is at least 4-5 of them. I keep them in the coop for a couple weeks, don't let them out into the run. Makes them accept the coop as home. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Approximately when can I put my chicks out in the coop? They are only three weeks old and are outgrowing the large dog crate brooder that we have set-up. I was thinking maybe next week, I could leave them in the coop and close off the run so they can't go outside unless I or my wife is out with them. What's the consensus with daytime temps being in the mid to upper 60's and night time temps in the mid to upper 40's? I keep them in the coop for a couple weeks, don't let them out into the run. Makes them accept the coop as home. We have 20 chicks. I'm thinking that I can move the Dog Crate out into the coop and hang the brooder lamp above it. I can isolate them to the crate at night so that they are still under the brooder lamp getting some heat. If we get a cold snap, I can always bring them back into the basement. |
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Posted: 5/12/2016 9:55:55 PM EDT
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Sounds like a good plan.
Don't confine them too close to the heat lamp however. Just have it available, they will pick just the right distance from it (or directly under it) as they need to to keep warm. If you confine them under it, you can cook them. |
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Posted: 5/12/2016 11:50:47 PM EDT
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Approximately when can I put my chicks out in the coop? They are only three weeks old and are outgrowing the large dog crate brooder that we have set-up. I was thinking maybe next week, I could leave them in the coop and close off the run so they can't go outside unless I or my wife is out with them. What's the consensus with daytime temps being in the mid to upper 60's and night time temps in the mid to upper 40's? Once they are feathered out completely, you can provide warmth with chicken lights and put them in the coop. You familiar with chicken lights? they're about $10 at Tractor Supply or other farm store. Put in a decent wattage light bulb (I use 100 watts) and hang a couple of them low so the babies can get under them to stay warm. Don't put them out until they're fully feathered. A chilled chick is a dead chick. Don't let them out into the run because they are smaller than you think they are under the fluff. They can fit through a tiny hole, and they will find that hole. Plus, they just need to be hardened off a little...sort of like plants. One step at a time.
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Posted: 5/12/2016 11:55:19 PM EDT
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Sounds like a good plan. Don't confine them too close to the heat lamp however. Just have it available, they will pick just the right distance from it (or directly under it) as they need to to keep warm. If you confine them under it, you can cook them. This. |
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Posted: 5/13/2016 8:05:04 AM EDT
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Sounds like a good plan. Don't confine them too close to the heat lamp however. Just have it available, they will pick just the right distance from it (or directly under it) as they need to to keep warm. If you confine them under it, you can cook them. This. Thanks for the advice, I will wait another week or two and I will hang our light somewhere in the coop. Right now it has a 250? Watt red heat lamp bulb in it. The dog crate that we are using is a metal one and is the extra large size as its for our Shepherd. It is 3 feet tall and almost 4 feet long. Right now the light is hanging on top off to one side so they can "escape" the heat. |
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Posted: 5/13/2016 11:26:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Thanks for the advice, I will wait another week or two and I will hang our light somewhere in the coop. Right now it has a 250? Watt red heat lamp bulb in it. The dog crate that we are using is a metal one and is the extra large size as its for our Shepherd. It is 3 feet tall and almost 4 feet long. Right now the light is hanging on top off to one side so they can "escape" the heat. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Sounds like a good plan. Don't confine them too close to the heat lamp however. Just have it available, they will pick just the right distance from it (or directly under it) as they need to to keep warm. If you confine them under it, you can cook them. This. Thanks for the advice, I will wait another week or two and I will hang our light somewhere in the coop. Right now it has a 250? Watt red heat lamp bulb in it. The dog crate that we are using is a metal one and is the extra large size as its for our Shepherd. It is 3 feet tall and almost 4 feet long. Right now the light is hanging on top off to one side so they can "escape" the heat. On second thought, if you keep the bulb rather high, the 250 would be a good idea. |
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Posted: 5/13/2016 1:06:03 PM EDT
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Thanks for the advice, I will wait another week or two and I will hang our light somewhere in the coop. Right now it has a 250? Watt red heat lamp bulb in it. The dog crate that we are using is a metal one and is the extra large size as its for our Shepherd. It is 3 feet tall and almost 4 feet long. Right now the light is hanging on top off to one side so they can "escape" the heat. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Sounds like a good plan. Don't confine them too close to the heat lamp however. Just have it available, they will pick just the right distance from it (or directly under it) as they need to to keep warm. If you confine them under it, you can cook them. This. Thanks for the advice, I will wait another week or two and I will hang our light somewhere in the coop. Right now it has a 250? Watt red heat lamp bulb in it. The dog crate that we are using is a metal one and is the extra large size as its for our Shepherd. It is 3 feet tall and almost 4 feet long. Right now the light is hanging on top off to one side so they can "escape" the heat. Waiting is probably a good idea. As long as they're not smothering each other, crowded is okay. I know they outgrow their space quickly though. And they usually don't pile up to the point that the bottom ones suffocate unless they're too cold. |
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Posted: 5/14/2016 10:13:34 AM EDT
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So I head to the bathroom this morning, and while there I hear little thuds coming from the incubator (we have the incubator in the bathroom since its only 1 of 2 floors in
the house that I have tore out and rebuilt so far, thus being actually flat and level). Then I hear a chick peeping! I open up the incubator to see an egg on the side of the incubator moving just enough to roll away form the wall and then roll back making the little thud. Looks like we will have our first incubator raised chick VERY soon! |
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Posted: 5/14/2016 3:40:12 PM EDT
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So I head to the bathroom this morning, and while there I hear little thuds coming from the incubator (we have the incubator in the bathroom since its only 1 of 2 floors in the house that I have tore out and rebuilt so far, thus being actually flat and level). Then I hear a chick peeping! I open up the incubator to see an egg on the side of the incubator moving just enough to roll away form the wall and then roll back making the little thud. Looks like we will have our first incubator raised chick VERY soon! Aww...it's amazing the amount of work they have to do to get out of that shell.
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Posted: 5/15/2016 12:07:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Aww...it's amazing the amount of work they have to do to get out of that shell. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: So I head to the bathroom this morning, and while there I hear little thuds coming from the incubator (we have the incubator in the bathroom since its only 1 of 2 floors in the house that I have tore out and rebuilt so far, thus being actually flat and level). Then I hear a chick peeping! I open up the incubator to see an egg on the side of the incubator moving just enough to roll away form the wall and then roll back making the little thud. Looks like we will have our first incubator raised chick VERY soon! Aww...it's amazing the amount of work they have to do to get out of that shell. Will have some vids up, but may not be until tomorrow/Monday. |
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Posted: 5/15/2016 12:16:10 AM EDT
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Video 1:
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Posted: 5/18/2016 12:13:20 PM EDT
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Pics!
First 5 from the incubator! The oddball yellow chick likes to sleep in the food   |
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Posted: 5/19/2016 12:28:07 AM EDT
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Pics! First 5 from the incubator! The oddball yellow chick likes to sleep in the food
http://i933.photobucket.com/albums/ad171/MN_Rat/IMG_2237_zpsui8qyp44.jpg Awwww. That's a box of happy.
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Posted: 5/25/2016 1:00:23 PM EDT
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Just throwing this quick video out there for a size reference between our Freedom Ranger rooster and our Barred Rock hens (and some fresh rock chicks to get our numbers back up)
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Posted: 6/12/2016 1:03:56 AM EDT
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Something maybe you guys could understand or relate to. We've put our house up for sale and one family has put an offer in. They're from California and interested in having some more land and love our chicken coop/chickens, but that's about all the good I can say about them. Over the course of negotiations they said that they loved the coop we built and wanted our chickens. We explained that they were strictly for laying, and basically pets to my mom, so we would be taking them with us..... this was a foreign concept to them. In the limited conversations I've had with them (I've tried to be as scarce as possible when they've been around) they don't know jack about chickens, and they aren't willing to learn beforehand. I feel bad for the first chickens they try to keep, but at least the red-tails that nest on our property will eat well
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Posted: 6/12/2016 7:55:39 AM EDT
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Something maybe you guys could understand or relate to. We've put our house up for sale and one family has put an offer in. They're from California and interested in having some more land and love our chicken coop/chickens, but that's about all the good I can say about them. Over the course of negotiations they said that they loved the coop we built and wanted our chickens. We explained that they were strictly for laying, and basically pets to my mom, so we would be taking them with us..... this was a foreign concept to them. In the limited conversations I've had with them (I've tried to be as scarce as possible when they've been around) they don't know jack about chickens, and they aren't willing to learn beforehand. I feel bad for the first chickens they try to keep, but at least the red-tails that nest on our property will eat well .Are you getting out of NJ? |
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Posted: 6/12/2016 10:11:19 AM EDT
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Unfortunately, nope. But moving to a homestead-type property.
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Posted: 6/12/2016 10:32:21 AM EDT
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Unfortunately, nope. But moving to a homestead-type property. Post some updates with the new digs. |
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Posted: 6/12/2016 12:18:15 PM EDT
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Unfortunately, nope. But moving to a homestead-type property. Post some updates with the new digs. As soon as we're moved in I will! |
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Posted: 6/19/2016 1:12:44 PM EDT
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Cuttingedge how are your chickens doing? Did I miss their move into their chicken palace?
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Posted: 6/20/2016 10:57:10 AM EDT
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Am I overfeeding??
Have 30 Freedom Ranger broilers on about their 6th week. Thus far have been feeding unlimited supply. They're looking fat and spend a lot of time just sitting in one place. Should I limit their food intake and, if so, how? It seems the more aggressive ones would get the lions share. Thanks...FN |
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Posted: 6/20/2016 11:30:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Am I overfeeding?? Have 30 Freedom Ranger broilers on about their 6th week. Thus far have been feeding unlimited supply. They're looking fat and spend a lot of time just sitting in one place. Should I limit their food intake and, if so, how? It seems the more aggressive ones would get the lions share. Thanks...FN Do they have an outdoor run? If not (or if its barren earth) then you very well may need to regulate their feed. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 9:44:56 AM EDT
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Cuttingedge how are your chickens doing? Did I miss their move into their chicken palace? Sorry that I had not replied. Yes you missed it I waited until the weather was a little warmer and confined them to the coop for a week or so. While they were in the coop, I put together a 12x12 covered run for them. Everything is done with the coop yet I need to finish the landscaping around it. Work and other things have gotten in the way but I should have time in the next week or so
Here is a pic 
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Posted: 7/25/2016 12:13:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sorry that I had not replied. Yes you missed it I waited until the weather was a little warmer and confined them to the coop for a week or so. While they were in the coop, I put together a 12x12 covered run for them. Everything is done with the coop yet I need to finish the landscaping around it. Work and other things have gotten in the way but I should have time in the next week or soHere is a pic http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j477/jpmako19/Mobile%20Uploads/B1D07E6D-DB39-4760-872B-3C70E4E7096F_zpsmojfoagi.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Cuttingedge how are your chickens doing? Did I miss their move into their chicken palace? Sorry that I had not replied. Yes you missed it I waited until the weather was a little warmer and confined them to the coop for a week or so. While they were in the coop, I put together a 12x12 covered run for them. Everything is done with the coop yet I need to finish the landscaping around it. Work and other things have gotten in the way but I should have time in the next week or soHere is a pic http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j477/jpmako19/Mobile%20Uploads/B1D07E6D-DB39-4760-872B-3C70E4E7096F_zpsmojfoagi.jpg  |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 1:30:38 PM EDT
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That coop literally looks nicer than my house Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Cuttingedge how are your chickens doing? Did I miss their move into their chicken palace? Sorry that I had not replied. Yes you missed it I waited until the weather was a little warmer and confined them to the coop for a week or so. While they were in the coop, I put together a 12x12 covered run for them. Everything is done with the coop yet I need to finish the landscaping around it. Work and other things have gotten in the way but I should have time in the next week or so
Here is a pic http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j477/jpmako19/Mobile%20Uploads/B1D07E6D-DB39-4760-872B-3C70E4E7096F_zpsmojfoagi.jpg No joke that would make a nice cabin for me to sleep in when the wife gets mad at me |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 11:48:35 PM EDT
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Sorry that I had not replied. Yes you missed it I waited until the weather was a little warmer and confined them to the coop for a week or so. While they were in the coop, I put together a 12x12 covered run for them. Everything is done with the coop yet I need to finish the landscaping around it. Work and other things have gotten in the way but I should have time in the next week or so
Here is a pic http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j477/jpmako19/Mobile%20Uploads/B1D07E6D-DB39-4760-872B-3C70E4E7096F_zpsmojfoagi.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Cuttingedge how are your chickens doing? Did I miss their move into their chicken palace? Sorry that I had not replied. Yes you missed it I waited until the weather was a little warmer and confined them to the coop for a week or so. While they were in the coop, I put together a 12x12 covered run for them. Everything is done with the coop yet I need to finish the landscaping around it. Work and other things have gotten in the way but I should have time in the next week or so
Here is a pic http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j477/jpmako19/Mobile%20Uploads/B1D07E6D-DB39-4760-872B-3C70E4E7096F_zpsmojfoagi.jpg That is amazing, and I can't wait to see the landscaping. Love the rock steps. That's my kind of coop.
You know to not landscape around the run, right? Unless it's Yucca filamentosa of reasonable size (or the equivalent indestructible vegetation), they will destroy it. ETA: The architectural shingles are a nice touch.
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